The struggle with tangled plotlines and histories is now showing clear progress.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t think even the most spoiler-phobic will think being told the categories of revelations are spoilerish…but just in case, I’m putting a break between this first paragraph and the rest.<\/p>\n
I now know where the magelords came from, back to their origin.\u00a0 Didn’t see that<\/em> coming.\u00a0 Should have.\u00a0\u00a0 Was fixated on Kuakkgani instead.<\/p>\n I now know the surprising reason One Family got involved in blood magery and others didn’t.<\/p>\n I now know all the reasons why Someone didn’t like Someone Else, besides the reasons Someone gives others or the other reason Someone Else gives others.<\/p>\n I now know the genealogy of several Someones (not either of the Someones above)\u00a0 back far enough to both explain some past interactions and clue me to the next.<\/p>\n I now know where Someone (not any<\/em> of the Someones above) was during a hiatus in appearance in the books.<\/p>\n I now know why Someone (not<\/em> any of the Someone’s above but related to one of them)\u00a0 quarreled with Someone (one of the other Someones above)\u00a0 and what the outcome of that quarrel was.<\/p>\n I now know why that Someone (the one just above) initiates actions that lead to other actions by other Someones already mentioned in a previous book and may even allow authorial recovery from an apparent (it may only be apparent) chronological glitch.<\/p>\n I now know, in general, what the population “shape” of the various races has been over a very,\u00a0 very long period of time.<\/p>\n I also now know that if you keep starting sentences with “I now know”, you’ll type “I know know” about half the time…or I will, anyway.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And a few other things that I can’t describe in general enough terms to keep them from being spoilers.<\/p>\n Things I still don’t know and need to find out:<\/p>\n Who are the [spoiler-oops] who are living in [other oops] and are critical to the end game?\u00a0\u00a0 What is their entire background?<\/p>\n How did the necklace (you already know about the necklace, so this isn’t spoilerish) get into that robbers’ lair where Arvid found it?\u00a0\u00a0 (Why do I need to know this?\u00a0\u00a0 Just in case it’s going to tie into the final knot of the plot.\u00a0 It may not.\u00a0 But I need to know anyway.) (And a clue may have just landed in my brain, but that’s for later.)<\/p>\n Which of the secondary characters–all of whom think they’re the center of the plot, of course (as they are, in the plot of their own individual stories)–is actually connected to the outer Plot?\u00a0\u00a0 They’re all in there, busy as an anthill, doing what they think it important, scheming away on their own agenda as we all do,\u00a0 and some of them have an agenda that will put them right in the path of the outer Plot,\u00a0 like someone determined to get to an appointment who crosses the train track without looking, just in time to be clobbered and affect the train’s schedule.<\/p>\n Knitting and thinking and writing in the Ideas file has been very useful.\u00a0 Now if the rest of the world (meaning, other LifeStuff that interferes with the work) would just go away and let me do nothing but write and think about the book and potter around in the garden and kitchen to avoid terminal chair-stiffness, that would be very helpful.\u00a0 As for the knitting, there are some new pictures up<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I continue to make mistakes, but some of them turn out to be features.\u00a0 May it be so for the books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The struggle with tangled plotlines and histories is now showing clear progress.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t think even the most spoiler-phobic will think being told the categories of revelations are spoilerish…but just in case, I’m putting a break between this first paragraph and the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5],"tags":[108,22,107],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-the-writing-life","tag-background","tag-characters","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}